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Local Digital Textbooks Initiatives

I will be giving a library seminar titled "Digital Textbooks: A Perfect Storm For Higher Learning" on April 17 2012 as par part of our spring library seminar series [
http://bit.ly/H58oSL ] >

_ Digital Textbooks: A Perfect Storm For Higher Learning_

While not currently widely adopted, an increasing number of colleges and universities are providing campus-wide access to digital textbooks or piloting their use for specific courses. This seminar will provide an overview of a number of major local, state,
regional, and national initiatives by institutions of higher learning as well as by primary and secondary schools in the U.S. and elsewhere. It will also profile select e-textbook platforms and features and the associated costs and benefits of digital textbook
use.

This seminar will be a revised and updated version of an in-house presentation that I gave to my library colleagues in late February 2012

Schema.org--a collaboration of the Google, Yahoo!, and Bing search engines--provides a way to include structured data in Web pages. Since its introduction in June 2011, the Schema.org vocabulary has grown to cover descriptive terms for content such as movies, music, organizations, TV shows, products, locations, news items, and job listings. The goal of Schema.org is "to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages.” The Schema.org initiative has emerged as a focal point for publishers of structured data in Web pages, especially but not exclusively in the commercial sector.

This webinar will explore how the publication methods of Schema.org relate to the methods used to publish Linked Data. Must data providers commit to one or the other, or can the two approaches exist side-by-side, even reinforcing each other?

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

Dan Brickley is best known for his work on Web standards in the W3C community, where he helped create the Semantic Web project and many of its defining technologies. Dan is currently working on outreach activities related to the Schema.org initiative. Previous work included six years on the W3C technical staff, establishing ILRT’s Semantic Web group at the University of Bristol, and more recently at Joost, an Internet TV start-up, and at the Vrije University Amsterdam. He has been involved with resource discovery metadata since 1994 when he published the first HTML Philosophy guide on the Web, and has been exploring distributed, collaborative approaches to “finding stuff” ever since.

Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, has recently co-chaired the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data.

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern on April 25, 2012. Discounts are available for NISO and DCMI members and students.

Can’t make it on the webinar date/time? Register now and gain access to the recorded archive for one year.

NISO/DCMI are holding four joint webinars in 2012. Register for three and receive the 4th for free. (If you want this package and missed the first webinar on February 22, you can still subscribe and receive the recorded version of the February webinar.)

I am happy to
inform you that, the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) is organizing
two day National Conference on “Trends
in Developing and Managing E-Resources in Libraries”, scheduled to be held
during 3rd week of May 2012.

The following
themes have been identified:

Types
of e-resources and its utilities;

Mandatory
requirement v/s subscription of e-resources,;

Policies,
selection and budgeting of e-resources;

Latest
trends in collection development of e-resources;

Competitive
skills and techniques of professionals in organizing e-resources;

Tools
and techniques in organizing e-resources;

Organization
of e-resources using Open Source Software (OSS);

Need
for management of e-resources;

Challenges,
methods and impacts of e-resources;

Strategic
planning and management of e-resources;

Provision
to access virtual e-resources;

Effective
usage of e-resources;

Optimum
usage of e-resources;

Access
patterns of e-resources using remote web portals;

Selecting
patterns of e-resources for academic/research pursuits.

The interested participants are hereby
requested to gear up to submit full text articles to

I am happy to
inform you that, the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) is organizing
two day National Conference on “Trends
in Developing and Managing E-Resources in Libraries”, scheduled to be held
during 3rd week of May 2012.

The following
themes have been identified:

Types
of e-resources and its utilities;

Mandatory
requirement v/s subscription of e-resources,;

Policies,
selection and budgeting of e-resources;

Latest
trends in collection development of e-resources;

Competitive
skills and techniques of professionals in organizing e-resources;

Tools
and techniques in organizing e-resources;

Organization
of e-resources using Open Source Software (OSS);

Need
for management of e-resources;

Challenges,
methods and impacts of e-resources;

Strategic
planning and management of e-resources;

Provision
to access virtual e-resources;

Effective
usage of e-resources;

Optimum
usage of e-resources;

Access
patterns of e-resources using remote web portals;

Selecting
patterns of e-resources for academic/research pursuits.

The interested participants are hereby
requested to gear up to submit full text articles to

Schema.org--a collaboration of the Google, Yahoo!, and Bing search engines--provides a way to include structured data in Web pages. Since its introduction in June 2011, the Schema.org vocabulary has grown to cover descriptive terms for content such as movies, music, organizations, TV shows, products, locations, news items, and job listings. The goal of Schema.org is "to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages." The Schema.org initiative has emerged as a focal point for publishers of structured data in Web pages, especially but not exclusively in the commercial sector.

This webinar will explore how the publication methods of Schema.org relate to the methods used to publish Linked Data. Must data providers commit to one or the other, or can the two approaches exist side-by-side, even reinforcing each other?

TOPICS AND SPEAKERS

Dan Brickley is best known for his work on Web standards in the W3C community, where he helped create the Semantic Web project and many of its defining technologies. Dan is currently working on outreach activities related to the Schema.org initiative. Previous work included six years on the W3C technical staff, establishing ILRT's Semantic Web group at the University of Bristol, and more recently at Joost, an Internet TV start-up, and at the Vrije University Amsterdam. He has been involved with resource discovery metadata since 1994 when he published the first HTML Philosophy guide on the Web, and has been exploring distributed, collaborative approaches to "finding stuff" ever since.

Thomas Baker, Chief Information Officer of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, has recently co-chaired the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group and the W3C Incubator Group on Library Linked Data.

REGISTRATION

Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern (16:00 UTC) on April 25, 2012. Discounts are available for NISO and DCMI members and students.

Can't make it on the webinar date/time? Register now and gain access to the recorded archive for one year. NISO/DCMI are holding four joint webinars in 2012. Register for three and receive the 4th for free.

With apologies for multiple posting.
Please forward to interested parties.
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2nd Call for Papers
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--RDA2--
"Rights and Duties of Autonomous Agents''
Workshop at ECAI 2012
August 27 or 28, 2012
Montpellier, France
https://rda2-2012.greyc.fr/
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The autonomous decision capability embedded in software or robot agents is one of the major issues of
Artificial Intelligence. It is a core property for AI applications such as e-commerce, serious games,
ambient computing, social or collective robotics, companion robots, unmanned vehicles.
Autonomous agents decide and act in a given context or environment and under domain constraints, and
possibly interact with other agents or human beings e.g. to share tasks or to execute tasks on behalf of
others. It is thus important to define regulation and control mechanisms to ensure sound and consistent
behaviours both at the agent’s individual level and at the multi-agent level. Organisation models,
conversation policies, normative systems, constraints, logical frameworks address the problem of how
agents’ autonomous behaviours should be controlled, paving the way for formal or pragmatic
definitions of agents’ Rights and Duties. The issue is all the more important as autonomous agents may
encounter new situations, evolve in open environments, interact with agents based on different design
principles, act on behalf of human beings and share common resources. For instance: should an autonomous
agent take over the control from a human operator? under which circumstances?
The aim of this workshop is to promote discussions and exchanges on the different issues raised by
autonomous agents’ Rights and Duties and models that can be proposed to represent and reason on Rights
and Duties.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We encourage contributions from the following research and application areas:
• Autonomous agents and privacy protection
• Rights and duties for learning agents
• Authority sharing between autonomous agents and human users or operators
• Rights and duties of autonomous agents towards other agents; towards human users or operators
• Rights and duties of human users or operators towards autonomous agents (especially robots)
• Consistency, conflicts among rights and duties in multi-agent and human/agent systems
• Mutual intelligibility, explanations
• Rights and duties vs failures
• Rights and duties of autonomous agents and ethical issues
• Control of autonomous agents within organisations, institutions, normative systems
• Sociology and law in the modelling of rights and duties: authority, power, dependence, penalty, contracts
• Trust and reputation for autonomous agents regulation
• Emergence and evolution of rights and duties
• Knowledge representation and models for rights and duties
• Reasoning on rights and duties
• Validation of rights and duties in autonomous agents
IMPORTANT DATES
June 1st 2012: workshop paper submission deadline
June 28th 2012: notification to authors
July 9th 2012: camera ready copy submission
August 27 or 28, 2012: workshop date
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Papers must not exceed SIX (6) pages in pdf format, using the ECAI formatting style:
http://people.cs.kuleuven.be/%7Eluc.deraedt/ecai2012-style.zip
Submissions are via EasyChair at:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rda22012
The workshop proceedings will be published as CEUR proceedings.
In addition, the organizers will apply for a special issue of an international journal where extended
versions of selected papers of the workshop shall be published.
For further information on the workshop:https://rda2-2012.greyc.fr/--
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Grégory Bonnet
Assistant Professor (MAD Team - GREYC)
www.gregory.bonnet.free.fr
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2012-04-06

Coordinator of Library Technology
McConnell Library
Radford University, VA
John P. McConnell Library at Radford University seeks a creative, enthusiastic,
user-oriented library technologist to join a team of library faculty committed to
providing world-class technology support to our academic community.
The Coordinator of Library Technology is primarily responsible for planning,
developing, implementing, and maintaining a robust information technology
platform supporting the Library's mission. Responsible for the administration of
the Library Information Technology Department, supervision of the department,
library technology budgets and purchases.
Required Qualifications:
Master's in Library Science or equivalent degree from a program accredited by
the American Library Association. Extensive study and experience in
Information Technology administration/management in academic libraries, and
on wide variety of IT platforms.
Extensive experience with integrated library systems and proxy servers.
Experience with library technology planning and budgeting. Experience with
development, implementation, and maintenance of a robust information
technology platform that supports the mission of academic libraries.
Supervisory experience.
Extensive and broad knowledge and experience with computer networks, library
automation systems, server management, content management systems, and
programming languages. Demonstrated success in teaching and training. Strong
evidence of interest and ability in applying innovative technologies to enhance
library services. Demonstrated understanding of the role and possibilities of
technology in the teaching, learning, and research pursuits of a medium sized
university.
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with Mac OS-X, UNIX/LINUX, MS-WIN7, HTML, DHTML, CSS, CGI,
RSS, Java, Javascript, SQL/MySQL, ASP, PHP, Innovative Interfaces
Millennium/Encore, EZ-Proxy, ILLIAD, ePrints, learning management systems,
Drupal or other CMS platforms, dynamic web applications, Wordpress,
presentation software, graphics and multimedia applications, a variety of open
source technologies and protocols, an understanding of library technology end-
user needs, and a variety of office and internet applications. Demonstrated
ability to prepare successful grant proposals for technology projects. Experience
in website, intranet, and digital asset repository design and management.
The Coordinator of Library Technology serves as department head for Library
Technology, and supervises two classified staff and two A/P positions. This is a
full time, administrative/professional faculty position.
Salary commensurate with qualifications or experience.
All applicants must apply online at https://jobs.radford.edu to be considered for
the position.
All new hires to Radford University will be subject to E-Verify beginning June 1,
2011. E-Verify is administered by the U. S. Department of Homeland Security,
USCIS - Verification Division and the Social Security Administration and allows
participating employers to electronically verify employment eligibility.
Radford University is an EO/AA employer committed to diversity.
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2012-04-06

Today saw an important step forward towards a wikification of scholarly workflows: PLoS Computational Biolog published an article that did not only follow the journal’s own author guidelines but also those for writing articles on the English Wikipedia, where
a copy of the journal article has been pasted into [[Circular Permutation in Proteins]], where it shall live on in the hands of the wiki community.

The article is the first in a new manuscript track – Topic pages – that adds a dynamic component to articles published in the journal, as explained in the accompanying editorial ...

BTW: In 2005, I gave an invited presentation at the TICER intenational conference at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, titled

"Wikis: Disruptive Technologies for Dynamic Possibilities”

The presentation reviews the general nature and structure of select wikis, the features and functions of popular wiki software engines, and describes the content and use of wikis by select businesses, colleges and universities, and libraries.The presentation
also speculated about the wiki as an environment, framework, and venue for Disruptive Scholarship, my proposed model for alternative scholarly authorship, review, and publishing.

More recently, I gave a presentation at the _Science in the 21st Century_ conference in Waterloo, Canada, titled

"The Wiki: An Environment For Scholarly Conversation and Publishing"

A "wiki is a ... collaborative space ... because of its total freedom, ease of access, and use, [and] simple and uniform navigational conventions ... ." "[It] ... is also a way to organize and cross-link knowledge ..." Ward Cunningham, Father of The Wiki
(Leuf and Cunningham, 2001, 16). Most wikis provide the user with a set of navigation or utility tools such as the ability to create and edit a page, view recently changed pages, and rollback to previous page versions. In addition, many wikis include a discussion
forum for proposed page changes.

Among its many perceived benefits are its potential for facilitating a more creative environment and expanding knowledgebase, and a significant ability to harness the power of diverse point-of-views in creating collaborative works.

In this presentation, we will speculate on the Wiki as a digital environment that not only supports current scholarly practices, but more importantly, offers a framework for their enhancement and transformation.